Photography News

A common rule of thumb to figure out your maximum shutter speed for sharp stars at night is to divide 500 by your focal length. Sometimes it’s called the 600 Rule or the 400 Rule or several other numbers that can be us...

Hey everyone, On 4/15, we’re teaming up with photographer Jonathan Higbee (who just did our Hasselblad X1D review) and Zeiss as Jon shows you the art of the “Photo-wait” which involves waiting for a key moment to s...

If we wrote it once, we’ve written it a thousand times: you don’t need expensive equipment to capture high-quality studio photography. As photographer Dustin Dolby of Workphlo demonstrates in this video, even that ex...

Photo lens experimenter and prolific YouTube filmmaker Mathieu Stern is at it again. This time, he took one of his old, cheap (do we even have to mention that?) Russian lenses and made one small modification to create wh...

Photographer Ingrid Alice Irsigler has had work that has always amazed me. Some of it is fairy tale inspired with great use of color; but either way Ingrid has overcome obstacles and earned a place on our 30 Women Photog...

Leica has finally announced that it has found a reliable replacement for the defective focus drive units in some of the S lenses from its medium-format system. The faulty units created complete AF failure in affected len...

Veteran wildlife photographer Michael Furtman has seen many images of northern owls swooping down, talons drawn on an unsuspecting black or white mouse on the surface of the snow. This kind of imagery makes his blood boi...

Designers and image editors often have to browse through large numbers of low-quality photographs before they find the stock image that is most suitable for their purposes. Now, a new algorithm has been created to filter...

There are 27 different blending modes in Photoshop, and unless you’re a real retouching junkie, chances are good you haven’t explored each and every one of them in detail. But have no fear, to paraphrase an old Apple...

I think it’s fair to say that most photographers will, at some point in their career, have to work with models at least once--whether you’re a still life shooter that photographs models’ hands holding a fork full o...

Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 20 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting

Fantasea Line is now taking orders for the FA6500, a rugged and stylish underwater housing for the Sony A6500 and A6300 mirrorless cameras.

"Don't believe that you become an artist the instant you received a gift Kodak on Xmas." says photographer Alfred Stieglitz in an article. Mr. Stieglitz needs no introduction for those of us who have studied him and his ...

We've been hard at work testing the new Panasonic GH5, and while we put the finishing touches on our review, we wanted to share a video we shot with the camera at Seattle's Pike Place Market. The video was recorded in UH...

This may upset some people, and it's certainly just my opinion, but all these "Instagram shoots" aren't creative. If you take a photo of a girl on a bed with no clothes on, you are not an artist. So, to the Instafamous o...

We've posted an assortment of photos from Canon's EOS Rebel T7i / 800D, which is the midrange camera in Canon's lower-end DSLR lineup. The T7i features a 24MP APS-C sensor with Dual Pixel autofocus, fully articulating LC...

Canon Europe has acquired Kite.ly, a London-based mobile e-commerce platform specialising in personalised print.

Canon have announced that their interchangeable-lens digital cameras (digital SLRs and CSCs) have maintained the No. 1 share of the global market for 14 consecutive years from 2003 to 2016.

A recently retired police sergeant from Solihull has been named the winner of a UK-wide photography competition for his shot entitled, “Homeward Bound” (above).

All this talk about Sony, Panasonic, and Fujifilm deals lately, we thought it was also worth mentioning the current slate of Canon savings that you can still take advantage of. These deals aren't new, but we have not men...

Sony has updated its medium-format sensor roadmap, which now includes a 150-megapixel 645 format imager, among others.

If you take a look at all the 85mm lenses available for the Sony full frame E mount, you'll notice that there surely are a whole lot. Both Zeiss and Sony make some of the most popular offerings, and sorting through the l...